It's a Roof!

We awoke early again this morning, and this time we were rewarded with a crew of five roofers on top of our house by 7:30 a.m.  These men are remarkable.  They obviously have worked as a coordinated team for a while because each man knew exactly what his responsibilities were, without direction, and all of the members worked very hard.

The workers pried the shingles loose, and then
they piled them neatly into bundles.

By 9:00, the entire roof was free of shingles.  The two crew members working on the flat Florida room roof found a surprise: a second layer of roofing under the first layer.

Two men worked all day stripping the old
roof off and installing the new roof on
the Florida room.

By 9:50, the paper was gone and one of the workers was throwing all of the debris into a huge truck.

A worker pries off the last of the old tar paper on the roof.

The pile of debris is what was left of the roof.

Meanwhile, by 10:00, the two workers on the Florida room had the new roof panels cut and put down.  The debris was all on the truck, and they were sweeping up the remnants on the old roofing materials.

New insulated, tapered panels are pushed
onto the roof for installation on the Florida room.

We had a few weak places that needed new boards.  The first was on the ridge of the roof over our bedroom.  We had noticed that it leaked only once, when Tropical Storm Debbie dumped 14 inches of rain on us all in one day.  However, the boards showed a slow leak in that area, so they cut out and patched the roof there.  We also had small patches by the front porch on the bedroom wall, by the kitchen, and by the Florida room where the roof met the main roof.  In that case, the sheathing underneath actually was cut short so it did not reach the drip edge.

This picture shows the corner board that was
cut short and did not reach the drip edge.
Why this area leaked was obvious.

We had a new experience today when a photographer for the roofing company showed up with a drone.  We have some fantastic aerial shots that he shared with us.  I won't publish any of them yet since I have not downloaded them all.

A hole in the roof shows an area that needed a new board.

By noon, the new Storm Guard stick-on underlayment was going down.  The Florida room men continued to work on the weatherproof membrane that they were installing and sealing.

By 2:30 the first layer of the job was complete. The Florida roof workers were sealing the edges of the new insulated panels. The roof is now waterproof, and the shingles and roof vents and fan will be installed tomorrow.

A worker peels out the paper which exposes the sticky part of
the underlayment for the shingles.  This membrane is better
than the old tar paper that roofers previously used.

As the workers were getting ready to leave, the shingles showed up on a huge crane truck.  I was able to shoot some fantastic video of the truck in action.  I am sure that Owen will love it when we get back to Wisconsin.

Shingles come on a big truck.

The house is ready for shingles tomorrow.

The foreman said that they will probably have the shingles installed by 10:30 tomorrow morning.  We are impressed with the coordination and professionalism of the crews.  Finally, something in this remodel is going right.